May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

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• Giacomo Meyerbeer:

  Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

• Tommaso Campanella:

  The world is a living image of God.

• Caspar David Friedrich:

  Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring t

• Caspar David Friedrich:

  I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

• Caspar David Friedrich:

  If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

• Caspar David Friedrich:

  The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself

• Christoph Martin Wieland:

  For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

• Christoph Martin Wieland:

  Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

• Christoph Martin Wieland:

  Man blindly works the will of fate.

• Christoph Martin Wieland:

  The compulsion of fate is bitter.